VPN on Blackberry

May 14, 2007 7:10 PM

Is there a VPN client for Blackberry devices?

If I can find a way to connect via VPN, I could use my Blackberry as an emergency office, and could stop carrying around a notebook. I can't seem to find any such software, but this seems to be something that should be available somewhere.. I can't be the only person to need it...

posted by niteHawk to computers & internet (7 comments total)

No. Or, I mean, yes. Only if you have the right model. The 7270 model had a VPN client, but it has never been publicly available in other models (as far as I know).

I believe BES provides something similar to a VPN service but I've never played around with it. Other solutions like Idokorro or SHAPE (formally desktop mobiles) might fit the bill.
posted by purephase at 7:39 PM on May 14, 2007

If you're using Windows and can enable the remote desktop connection, it looks like this client or this client or will work.
posted by null terminated at 8:19 PM on May 14, 2007

To connect to what?

The usual way to set up a corporate blackberry is to make one endpoint the BES inside the company network. At that point your blackberry is already "on" your intranet, so there's either already a VPN or no need for one depending on your point of view.
posted by mendel at 8:45 PM on May 14, 2007

My blackberry is set up the same way that mendel describes. I can ssh to anything on my internal network directly from my blackberry without the need for a VPN client, exactly because BES is inside the internal network.
posted by yeoz at 8:59 PM on May 14, 2007

I read that as VNC--ignore my response if it's off topic.
posted by null terminated at 9:12 PM on May 14, 2007

We are a... unique... situation with being inside the network. The BES server is in one part of the network, but my servers are on another.

Thanks
posted by niteHawk at 5:25 AM on May 15, 2007

To connect to what?
posted by mendel at 9:42 AM on May 15, 2007